The way I look at it, it's impossible for landlords and contractors to ever come close to outnumbering workers. Every landlord needs tenants (on average more than one) and every contractor needs laborers (on average more than one). I'd say the average is 10:1. 10 workers supporting each petite bourgeois landlord or manager. So you have 1% defended by a 10% against the 90%.
That's a bit of a simplification. Say we accept that 10-1 ratio for landlords and small businessmen. Each employee at the business is also a tenant for the landlord. That's 10 Proletarians and 2 petit bourgeoisie. Say each has a stay-at-home spouse. That's 4 leeches. Maybe one of them took over the family business when their father retired. Thats 5. Most likely more. The petit bourgeois tend to form extended clan networks.
That's not even getting into the managerial class. Middle management, lawyers, insurance agents, realators...
At the time, they were the small farmers. Now it's landlords, contractors, and other petit bourgeoisie. I think people underestimate their numbers.
The way I look at it, it's impossible for landlords and contractors to ever come close to outnumbering workers. Every landlord needs tenants (on average more than one) and every contractor needs laborers (on average more than one). I'd say the average is 10:1. 10 workers supporting each petite bourgeois landlord or manager. So you have 1% defended by a 10% against the 90%.
That's a bit of a simplification. Say we accept that 10-1 ratio for landlords and small businessmen. Each employee at the business is also a tenant for the landlord. That's 10 Proletarians and 2 petit bourgeoisie. Say each has a stay-at-home spouse. That's 4 leeches. Maybe one of them took over the family business when their father retired. Thats 5. Most likely more. The petit bourgeois tend to form extended clan networks.
That's not even getting into the managerial class. Middle management, lawyers, insurance agents, realators...
Fair, but they're still the minority.